duboisine

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An alkaloid obtained from Duboisiamyoporoides, a shrub or small tree which is a native of Australia.

Etymologies

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From the name of a tree, Duboisia myoporoides, from whose leaves it can be obtained, and the suffix -ine.

Examples

According to the early researches we could not discover any of these relationships which only become evident when we come to study the new discoveries which have been made in connection with the tropines, to which class belong both duboisine and hyoscyamine, which, although differing from atropine, are equally mydriatic in their action.